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Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
Parts of Speech Slide Show |
1 to 4 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create a slide show demonstrating their knowledge of the parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb). |
President Slide Show |
2 to 3 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) As a part of a government unit my students research Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Then they make a slide show of the information. |
Exploring My Environment for Speech and Language |
K to 5 |
Student will photograph objects containing their targeted speech sounds and/or items in selected categories. These photographs will be used in a power point slide show for individual drill and copied to establish a "visual library". |
Getting Ready for Graduation |
8 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The yearbook is being finalized, and the last digital newspaper will be complete for May 1, the staff will create a senior "Life-Road" slide show to play during the graduation ceremony June 6. They will gather photos from each senior documenting their childhood up 'til the graduation night. |
Getting Ready for Graduation |
8 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The yearbook is being finalized, and the last digital newspaper will be complete for May 1, the staff will create a senior "Life-Road" slide show to play during the graduation ceremony June 6. They will gather photos from each senior documenting their childhood up 'til the graduation night. |
Hopping Good Tales |
4 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) After reading several fairy tales, students will write, edit and illustrate original fairy tales based on The Frog Prince. Using Tool Factory Slide Show students will plan and organize story events, edit and prepare a fairy tale to share with the class. |
Life Cycle of the Butterfly |
2 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to record and report the life cycle of a butterfly using a digital camera. A digital book or slide show will be created at the end of the project. |
Small Moments |
1 to 2 |
Children partake in many "small moments" that can be captured in a picture at home and at school. When "small moments" are recorded, children can look at them, remember them, and write a genuine "story from experience" including many details that the picture shows. |
Video Yearbook/Senior Video |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The Video Yearbook/Senior Video will be an ongoing year-long project. During the school year students will film school events such as sports and homecoming, drama and music productions, and club activities, and graduation. Tool Factory Movie Maker will be used to edit the clips for a Video Yearbook which will be burned to DVD. |
"Board" Games |
6 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The Teacher will use the Promethean Board to create interest and review for tests in the classroom. The lesson reviewed will be for adjectives. |
"Dear Peter Rabbit" Lesson Plan |
1 to 4 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 3 ratings) This lesson incorporates Beatrix Potter's story of "Peter Rabbit" and a variety of technology resources. The end result has students writing letters online to Peter Rabbit after his ordeal in Mr. McGregor's garden.
http://www.vrml.k12.la.us/sadies/lesson/peter/peterlesson.htm |
"Girls Only" Science Workshop |
2 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 4 ratings) This workshop was created to give female students a chance to design and implement both scientific and engineering skills. Female students are sometimes discouraged from entering the fields of science and engineering so we developed this curriculum and hosted an All Girls Science Camp Weekend. |
"In the News!" |
2 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 3 ratings) A newscast that can be writen, produced and created by elementary or middle school students. Co-Authored with Stacy Bodin |
"In Three Words" |
5 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) "In Three Words, a lesson creating an anti-bullying Animoto video, allows students to take an active role in the development of an anti-bullying lesson thus taking ownership of the message. Students used the Good Morning America segment “Your Three Words” as a model for creating videos depicting powerful anti-bullying messages. Using flip video cameras, students filmed short clips displaying their three word messages and then created a collective video using the web 2.0 tool, Animoto. |
"White on White" Photography |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Using a variety of selected materials, students will create photographic compositions using white objects against a white background. This unit will emphasize the art elements of line, shape, texture, and value. |
'Student Teaching' |
6 to 6 |
Students teamed up to teach a 20 minute mini-lesson. I used my Flip Video Camera and Tripod to record them. |
A Day in the Life on Tech’s Campus |
7 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Multimedia assignment to capture what is happening on campus from multiple perspectives with photos, stories, video and blogs |
All about "Me" autobiography!! |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Student will make powerpoints and turn them into movies. These movies will be autobiographies about them!! |
All about me |
6 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Getting to know all the students. An all about me project for grades 6-8. |
Alphabet Group Project |
10 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students work in groups to locate alphabet letters in ordinary items and scenery. This is not a dictionary project, but rather an awareness of lines, shapes, angles, and level. |
Amazing Photography |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will serve as a follow up to an introductory lesson on photography. Each student will be responsible for creating a Powerpoint presentation with examples of "amazing photography." |
Analyzing Fiction Text with Nearpod |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will complete a Nearpod interactive lesson with a partner in live time in class. Students will mark text with colors coordinating to specific criteria, as well as make predictions of what will happen in the story. |
Animals of Florida |
K to 3 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Journey with us as students discover Native Florida Wildlife. |
Beginning Sounds -What sound does each picture begin with? |
K to K |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Beginning Sounds -What sound does each picture begin with? |
Building God’s House |
4 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 5 ratings) This is fun, interesting project that gets the students excited about church. |
Can You See What I See? |
5 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 3 ratings) In this lesson, students will take digital pictures to represent various forms of energy and the steps involved in energy transfers and transformations. They will then create a Rebus story that can be solved using these pictures. This activity will bring to life a science concept that is usually difficult to see and understand. |
Capturing Animals through Technology |
2 to 5 |
Students will use digital recoding photograpgy equipment to take pictures of animals at our local zoo. They will then insert the photography into a variety of audio-visual technology -based reports featuring thier animals. |
Chemical Change in the Kitchen |
3 to 7 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will photograph the different stages of a food item being cooked. They will then put their photos into a slide show with captions describing the photos and any evidence of chemical change. |
Classroom Booklet Adapted from Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See |
K to K |
Students will make pictures of animals using different colors as in the book mentioned. When they are finished, a photo will be taken of them and their picture. |
Dazzling Digital Poem Project ¨C 7th grade |
7 to 10 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) 7th grade students will take one of their original poems and create a digital poem on PowerPoint. This poem will include a student narration of poem, a collage of pictures representing their poem's ideas and background music. |
Defining the Difference Between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells--An alternative to direct instruction. |
7 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) This inquiry based lesson plan helps students define the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells using microscopes (one equiped with a camera), a smart board and a powerpoint/pictures of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells (slides). |
Digital Portfolio |
K to 6 |
Students in kindergarten and sixth grade will document their field trips using digital photography in order to share the experiences. |
Digital Storytelling - My Special Story |
4 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn the techniques of Digital Storytelling in order to complete a narrative about an important event in their lives. Students will compose a narrative, collect images and photographs. Students will then create a digital slideshow, complete with spoken narration, images, music and transitions appropriate to the mood they want to set for their story. |
Electronic Poetry Project |
6 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The Electronic Poetry Project is a student-generated, project-based learning experience in which students utilize technology to develop skills in research, writing, and creativity to produce an audio/video presentation. Student-driven, project-based learning enhances lasting knowledge rather that just momentary learning. |
Electronic Portfolio |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use Powerpoint to create a multimedia portfolio of work completed during the year. The presentation will also serve as a yearbook where students will be allowed to import pictures of family and friends as well as narrate descriptions of the contents.
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Everything American |
8 to 8 |
Students work collaboratively to define "American Culture" by capturing images of the American way of life, and using them to create a PowerPoint display using words and images. |
Explain Everything |
5 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Through an interactive white board, my students will be able to communicate information they know with a deeper understanding. |
Exploring our World through Video |
2 to 4 |
I want to allow students to use video to express their lives and the area in which they live. I also would like for them to learn how to use a camera, import video and create great projects using that video. |
EXTRA! EXTRA! Hear all about it!! |
P-K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 6 ratings) Parents can now hear the excitement in their child's voice and see the smile on their child's face as their children share what they did throughout the week with this podcast newsletter. |
Famous Americans |
3 to 3 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) In this social studies lesson, students chose a famous American to study in order to create a research-based PowerPoint presentation using a template. Ultimately, students present their work to the class. |
Flip into Technology! |
6 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use Flip cameras to gather information and integrate it into any classroom activity. |
Force and Motion Flip Books |
4 to 8 |
Students will use a digital camera to take pictures of the six simple machines, the three types of levers, and Newton's Laws of Motion as seen in the "real world". |
Genius Hour Technology |
K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Our K-5 Gifted classroom would like to have 4 iPads (with protective cases) and/or video cameras to aid with our project based instruction. This technology will allow our students to research multiple fields and present authentic products to an audience. |
Geometry Hunters |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will review basic two dimensional geometric terms as they complete a digital scavenger hunt by snapping photos on the smartphone. Students will present their findings to the class in a googledocs slide show.
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Going "Diggie" with Math Word Problems |
5 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson integrates the use of the digital camera into the creation of Math word problems. This approach of learning applies real life experiences for all the students involved. |
Grade 7 Science Vocabulary Building Through Visualization of Word Meanings To Make Digital Art |
7 to 7 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The meanings of Grade 7 Science words were visualized through acquisition of photo software skills to make digital art for retention of these word meanings. |
How Does Your Garden Grow? |
K to 4 |
With the help of technology the children will be amazed witnessing the school garden change before their eyes! The work and dedication put into a garden will surely pay off when the digital presentation is viewed. |
Illustrated Dictionary |
P-K to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 4 ratings) As a culminating activity for a Science or Social Studies unit, students will create their own illustrated dictionary including key vocabulary learned throughout the unit. This activity will include small group as well as independent work, and employ technologies such as digital cameras, photo editing software, computer, printer, and SMART board. |
Integrating Technology into our 1st grade classroom. |
K to 1 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) I have different activities for the students to accomplish by using technology. |
It Was Like Being There |
3 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create a movie, introducing their city, their school, themselves to be shared via Skype with students around the world. |
iZOO |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This is the cumlinating project for a unit on animal adaptations and habitats. Students will complete a WebQuest, create a slideshow or animated movie, and a podcast. |
Kids with Cameras make a difference |
1 to 4 |
1-4th grade students create a photography exhibit titled "Sense of Place" about their community and then use the exhibit to collect donations to support international Kids with cameras programs. |
Leaf Scavenger Hunt |
6 to 7 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will be going on a learning excursion to Mandalay Trail National Wildlife refuge to collect leaf samples for their leaf scrapbook using digital cameras. Upon returning to school the students will be using the digital camera pictures to compose a power point presentation, and they will create data tables to compare the pH levels of the water quality samples. |
Literature is Alive and Everywhere |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will look to the world around them for inspiration for writing poetry and prose. Using digital cameras and related technology, students will reach out to their world to look for inspiration in everyday beauty. |
Louisiana Cinquains |
P-K to P-K |
Overview: Students review language and grammar skills taught throughout the year. Students will also utilize the writing process in order to compose a form of poetry (cinquains). Finally students will incorporate our study on Louisiana as a focus on their poems. |
Louisiana Unit for Pre K |
P-K to P-K |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn about their state. |
Making Movies to Demonstrate a Process |
4 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students demonstrate a process by using pictures and voice and compiling a movie on Windows Movie Maker |
Microsoft PowerPoint |
6 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) A step-by-step lesson to teach students how to make an electronic presentations using Microsoft© PowerPoint. |
Muscle Tissue |
11 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson uses the Nearpod app to engage students in a presentation about new content on muscle tissue. |
Mystery Game |
P-K to 3 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Use a Karaoke Machine, a digital projector (or smart board technology), speakers, computer, document camera, Digital Microscope, Digital Camera to determine if an item is living or nonliving according to its physical characteristics. |
Mythbusters |
8 to 8 |
The popular show "Mythbusters" is the ultimate way for students to utilize the scientific method every day to answer questions about science and life. |
Persistence of Vision: Animation I |
10 to 12 |
Students will study the early history of moving pictures as an introduction to the concept of persistence of vision and animation. Students will develop a final animation which utilizes a variety of animation sequences: computer drawn, stop motion, hand drawn, with a 6.0 megapixel Olympus digital camera and the Tool Factory software MultiMedia Lab V. |
Research Begins in Kindergarten |
P-K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Children are directed to find a specific non-flction fact, looking in many different books such as, " What do bears eat?" They are to take a picture of the bear eating something and present it as a whole class research project. The teacher and students will then add the necessary facts to the pictures and a slide show is prepared with the pictures and facts. |
School Motto/School Expectations |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students in GATE, grades 3-5, will teach and demonstrate the school rules and expectations to students in grade PreK-2. They will also, help model the expectations of our newly implemented school motto through the use of video and technology. |
Sharing your PowerPoint Presentation |
6 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) A step-by-step lesson to teach students how to share their electronic presentations using Microsoft© PowerPoint. |
Sonoran WebQuest |
5 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Ultilizing some of the most advanced technology available today, you and your team of scientists will create a multi-media presentation to share with the world on the internet! |
Student Created Power Point |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Student will learn to use the tools in Power Point to create a Power Point project to introduce themselves. |
Succession in the Classroom |
6 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will observe and record with digital cameras the process of succession as it occurs in a 55 gallon tank that the students set up with soil from their own backyards. |
Tech Savvy Naturalists |
P-K to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) While technology is the way of the future, the future of endangered plants and animals are our responsibility. Students will learn about ecology and biology of animals and plants in our community and create movies and picture books as their culminating projects. |
Teen Business Plan |
7 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 3 ratings) This simulated project provides students with a contextualized learning experience where they will create a legitimate business plan for an actual teen-based business. |
The Autobiography of a Middle School |
6 to 8 |
The multidisciplinary project would use the Olympus Digital Cameras and Tool Factory Software to help define and build school unity, self-esteem, and culture through student-made pictures, essays, biographies, and art. The final goal of this project will be an autobiographical photo-essay slide show that the student council will present to their peers, parents, faculty, and school board at their eighth grade graduation ceremony. |
The Bill of Rights in Action |
8 to 8 |
In this lesson, students will view short video clips illustrating various rights in the first ten amendments to the Constitution. In groups, students will have to identify the right(s) in the video, discuss, and explain how that right is being celebrated. |
The Flea |
P-K to 2 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Allows students, in a small goup grades k-2, to pracitce the social skills of listening, sitting still, and having a good listening body. Those important foundational social skills. |
Think It, Write It, Create It, |
K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will author, illustrate, and create digital book collections to share with the school and to promote reading through the use of technology. |
Tree Trekkers |
4 to 5 |
Students will photograph, identify, classify and write about trees in their school yard, the immediate neighborhood and in their own neighborhood. The will publish a booklet and/or a slide show about their trees. |
Trout Fishing in the Connoquenessing Watershed |
7 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This project involves allowing our students the capabilities to produce a trout fishing travel brochure for use by our local tourism board. |
Using Our Senses |
1 to 1 |
We will go on a nature walk and use digital cameras to capture the things we learn about using our five senses. |
View, Review, & Replicate: Using Graphics and Humor for Vocabulary Acquisition |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will recognize and review frequently tested ACT/SAT vocabulary words through the use of word/ graphic associations and humorous content videos. |
Virtual Speech |
11 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Integrate digital citizenship curriculum into student learning. Ensure full, equitable access and participation of all learners through high-quality technology tools and resources. |
Vivid Visual Vocabulary |
3 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The Vivid Visual Vocabulary Project is a student-generated, project-based learning experience in which students utilize technology to develop skills in research, writing, and creativity to produce weekly vocabulary presentation on root words. Expanding vocabulary enhances reading skills. |
Vivid Visual Vocabulary |
4 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The Vivid Visual Vocabulary Project is a student-generated, project-based learning experience in which students utilize technology to develop skills in research, writing, and creativity to produce an audio/video presentation. As students share projects that are developed individually and through cooperative, small learning communities, they become both teacher and learner. |
Vocabulary Building Through Visualization Of Word Meanings To Create Digital Art |
7 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Vocabulary enhancement came to the forefront with acquired skills of manipulating photographs ... utilizing various tools and filters within the software … and this cognitive and creative process placed the students in a new environment of hands-on with photo software and the requirement of researching the "real" meanings of words, then translating these "realities" into "creative" ones through visualization. |
Vocabulary Taboo Review |
3 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is a twist on the card game "Taboo", where people aim to describe a word at the top of the card, but are not allowed to use the "Taboo" words printed on the card in their description. |
Welcome to Historic Wilkes County |
3 to 3 |
Each year our third graders are required to take a field trip back in time to our local Heritage Museum and other historic buildings. This project allows students to make photographs of these historic buildings in our county and turn them into a multimedia presentation about our local history that can be presented on our classroom SMART Board. |
Welcome to Our School ! |
6 to 8 |
Overview - using a camera for an ongoing class project will allow students to capture on film any and all projects done in classes for the year, Teacher expectations, and how to get around at our school. The selected activities will be documented and used to make additions and subtractions in an effort to make all projects more student friendly, and to familiarize parents and students with their new school. |
What's Up with the Water Cycle? |
1 to 2 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Purpose: Students would learn the steps of the water cycle, then film the process and explain it using a flip camera. |
What's Your Angle |
3 to 5 |
Students will use digital cameras to locate and record several type of angles found in their school. They will identify these angles, put into a slide show and use it to teach others about geometric angles. |
Who's the Man? Men of the French & Indian War and Road to the Revolution |
5 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Who's the Man? Men of the French & Indian War and Road to the Revolution |
Write to Read |
6 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) There is nothing more motivating than teaching to the interests of students, and what middle school students' interests revolve around themselves and their friends. Digital storytelling of the school year gives them a voice and leades to improved language arts skills. |